CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy — Breezy Johnson has been there before. She has been the one crashing, sustaining devastating injury, seeing an Olympic medal hope suddenly vanish. She knows the resulting pain to body and soul.
Now she knows the other side. The pinch-me side. The side where you slash down a mountain faster than anyone as the whole world watches, and they put a gold medal around your neck, and you try to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” but you’re too busy crying to get through it all.
